What is "skillion"

Usage examples of "skillion".

If it was in Australia, probably Lord Douglas was an elder son and had to do all the hard graft, and teach himself at night, and sleep in a bark skillion while his younger brothers benefited--they were born in the new brick house and went to boarding-schools.

I put the other horses back in the yard, the saddles in the skillion, got on my horse and rode off.

Queensland since the Christmas before last--while poor Mary, who is afraid to live alone, shared a skillion and the family quarrels at home--Joe rides day and night and reaches home at sunrise on Christmas morning, tired and dusty, gaunt and haggard, but with his last cheque intact.

At the back of the long room of twenty feet, a skillion, to serve as a kitchen, etc.

I jumped, thinking I heard someone on the skillion roof above our heads.

Grant and her daughters, a verandah and a skillion room opening off it.

There was a skillion behind, which could be filled up with a bunk for Talgai.

He had heard on the radio once that the Universe had started with an unimaginable explosion and that static was its dying echoes a skillion years later.

The old slab farmhouse and skillions and out-houses, and the new square brick house built in front, were all asleep in the moonlight.

So it has to force its way through whillions and skillions of ohms of resistance to get through to you at all.

Everything the Arisians had done for umpteen skillions of years had been aimed at the Eddorians.